FLATTENING

Flattening

Flattening is a measure of the compression of a circle or sphere along a diameter to form an ellipse or an ellipsoid of revolution respectively. Other terms used are ellipticity, or oblateness. The usual notation for flattening is f and its definition in terms of the semi-axes of the resulting ellipse or ellipsoid is

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flattening

Noun

  1. The act, or the result of making something flat of flatter
  2. A flattened part of something
    The Earth is a sphere that has flattenings at the poles.

Verb



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